Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited. In Camp Stewart, Ga., Private Andrew J. Capariso's commanding officer judged him "limited service material." The C.O. then learned that Capariso had survived 15 months' internment in North Africa, English air raids, shrapnel wounds at Dakar, three torpedoings, 16 days on the Atlantic in an open boat, three days on the Atlantic on a raft with a dead...
...March 1928, a French company, Aeropostale, opened a route from France to Dakar by plane, across the Atlantic by boat to Brazil, by plane via Uruguay to Buenos Aires. One of the great ventures of a business age. the creation of Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, Aéropostale could get an airmail letter from Paris to Argentina and a reply back in less time than U.S. business correspondence could make the one-way trip from New York...
Cocky, cynical Frank Kluckhohn put his foot in his mouth early this year when he heard about President Roosevelt's imminent arrival in Africa. Kluckhohn, who was in Casablanca, demanded transportation to Dakar, where he was sure the President would land. He got it, had a fine view of Dakar while Roosevelt conferred in Casablanca...
...toward the liberalization of General Henri Honore Giraud's North African Government (TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
...There he conferred with round, determined little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, an "old friend." After long conversations, sometimes in Franklin Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this time to review U.S. troops at the Natal air base...